Five congregations ousted this week were the first to be expelled from the SBC on a national level for having women pastors since the ban on women pastors was instituted in 2000.
Stacie Wood, wife of Andy Wood, who replaced Warren as lead pastor last summer, has the title of ‘teaching pastor.’
‘This is not a mere research paper,’ said the Rev. Cornell William Brooks, a Kennedy School professor and former president of the NAACP.
Los Angeles Auxiliary Bishop David G. O’Connell was committed to 'the ordinary person, not the rich Catholic,' said Linda Dakin-Grimm, an immigration attorney who worked with the bishop. His death is being investigated as a homicide.
An estimated 50,000 have flocked to the rolling revival meeting in this tiny Central Kentucky town.
Two friends from seminary in Texas launched a new festival to foster conversations about our changing religious communities that they felt were missing in civic life.
Eileen’s life now is a far cry from the subservient role she once played to a domineering and violent husband.
Leaders representing more than 35 million Anglicans said the English church’s decision to allow clergy to bless marriages and other unions of same-sex couples would further split the worldwide Anglican Communion.
The series, timed to start during Black History Month, follows another documentary, PBS’ “The Black Church: This Is Our Story, This Is Our Song,” based on a 2021 book by Harvard historian Henry Louis “Skip” Gates Jr.
One research chaplain called the new data ‘a V8 engine for the kind of work we do.’
And what helps us most to understand our neighbors’ faiths?
Students have packed the chapel and overflow spaces at Asbury University for nearly a week, holding round-the-clock prayer and worship.
A new PRRI survey finds that 10% of Americans are avowed Christian nationalists and an additional 19% are sympathetic to its ideals. Among white evangelicals, nearly two-thirds are Christian nationalists or sympathizers.
‘Theocracy is incompatible with democracy and religious freedom in a pluralistic society,’ the resolution read in part.
Rabbi Joshua Hammerman offers his opinion. Whatever happened to #Pluralism, he asks?
Named for the popular author and retired pastor, the new center hopes to help churches deal with a ‘post-Christendom’ America.
The bishops have displeased both conservatives and progressives in the church with a proposal to bless civil unions between same-sex partners.
Biden’s remarks occurred on the day when there were two events instead of one to mark the tradition of prayer gatherings of Congress and the U.S. president.
‘Because pastors do not report abuse, it allows abusers to keep on preying on vulnerable individuals,’ said advocate Abbi Nye.
‘When we talk about public safety, let us understand what it means in its truest form: Tyre Nichols should have been safe,’ the vice president said.
Today’s Christian Eucharist is a combination of the Jewish synagogue service and Passover meal as adapted by the early Jewish Christians.
We see more and more English-speaking churches either planting a Hispanic church or adding a service in Spanish to their current congregation,' said Giancarlo Montemayor with Lifeway Recursos.
"Guess Who's Coming To Dinner." The 2023 version. With hip hop.
The relaxation of doctrine for pastoral purposes is itself a Christian doctrine. Is Pope Francis headed that way?
They expressed grief and prayers for Nichols’ family, as well as called for national and state legislation. Some questioned whether the video of the police beating of Nichols should be watched.
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